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The One Pillar Pagoda (Chùa Một Cột) is one of Vietnam's most iconic temples, designed to resemble a lotus blossom emerging from a single stone pillar. Originally built in 1049, the current structure is a 1954 reconstruction.
Emperor Lý Thái Tông built the pagoda in 1049 after dreaming of the bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara on a lotus flower. The French destroyed it in 1954; the new government rebuilt it soon after.